Propagandhi

Calling all punk rockers - I sure hope you didn’t think that Propagandhi broke up. I mean sure, they don’t tour all that often, and it’s not as if they release a new record every other year, but 2009 is a big year for the band. Indeed, they do have a new record out, and they are touring in support of it, ready to whet the thirst their rabid fans that have waited years to get a taste of band in a live environment.
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Raphael Saddiq
Soul was a great point in music, there’s no question. I remember growing up listening to Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, men who moved me toward Marvin and Al, who were steps away from Bobby Womack and Bill Withers. These dudes embodied great power, style, and sex—lots of secret sex that I wasn’t totally allowed to understand, but which became apparent through watching how people reacted to their music and words. Men walked a little looser and women seemed to speak with poutier, fuller lips, which is saying a lot for growing up in a black community.
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The Old Haunts
I was so pissed off at myself. I had wasted a few hours mollified by public television and eating dry cereal. Old Haunts came to Philly two years ago and I didn’t go. I knew they were coming to Philly, but then I figured out they were playing a house party our near Drexel and I actually decided I wasn’t in the mood to hang with drunk-ass college paste eaters. I should have sucked it up, gone and pulled up some wall in the back. Regret is a bad motherfucker.
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